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As SEC schedule debate unfolds, most coaches noncommittal

DESTIN, Fla. -- Kirby Smart sounded ready to be done with the Southeastern Conference's great schedule debate.

"The most overrated conversation in the world," the Georgia coach said Tuesday.

As is tradition, the Southeastern Conference took over a resort hotel on the Florida Gulf Coast for its spring meetings this week. The hottest topic is what the nation's toughest football conference plans to do with its schedule starting next season when Texas and Oklahoma join to make it a 16-team league with no divisions.

The options are sticking with an eight-game slate, but shifting to one annual rivalry game instead of the current two, or going to nine games with three annual rivals.